UNCTAD launched on 23 September a new online tool with groundbreaking data on global imports and exports of biodiversity-based products. These include natural foods, cosmetics, handicrafts, natural medicines and ecotourism. The trade and biodiversity statistical tool provides consistent, complete, harmonized and comparable data and related indicators on 1,814 such products for any country and year since 2010.
Download logoAt a partners conference on cotton jointly organized with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the UN Conference on Trade and Development
The cascade of crises facing consumers, from COVID-19 to food and energy price shocks due to the war in Ukraine and climate change, puts billions of people in a vulnerable situation. The digital transformation of economies is also propelling consumer vulnerability to new heights.